Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 2 | Did you see what he did when we passed him first ? |
| 3 | Actually , I have to say , we got it first , it 's one of those , I think it 's corny , you know when you do something first , and everybody else seems to suddenly do it , and they come round , and say , that 's really a good idea , and like , everybody comments on our coffee grinder and since we come to like , the church , like , practically everybody in the church has now got a coffee grinder . |
| 4 | Was it when we got our first important jobs and started the expense-account lunch routine ? |
| 5 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 6 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 7 | ‘ When we got our first serious analysis from the system in January 1992 , there was a minor panic at the amount of sick days reported , although it was not quite so bad when we analysed the figures further and found that one employee 's long-term sickness was affecting the averages . |
| 8 | We got our first wireless second-hand from John Thwaites at High Birk Hatt just before the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 9 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
| 10 | One of our church members became the paid administrator for the centre in which now , two years after we used it first and one year after it opened to the public , there are dance classes ; keep fit ; carpet bowls ; drama ; OAP 's club ; card club ; ballroom dancing ; judo etc . |
| 11 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
| 12 | We built our first pond this summer . |
| 13 | In 1990 we found our first chiff-chaff on the count of March 11 and in 1989 , two early sand-martins and a solitary wheatear on March 12 . |
| 14 | As we prepared our first Report , to be published in November 1988 , we wanted our document to be lively , to avoid bureaucratic jargon , and to impart enthusiasm for literature , so we included references to specific authors . |
| 15 | Back at the beginning of November we instigated our first car boot sale , which we reluctantly accept was less than a 110 per cent success . |
| 16 | I have to remember we spent her first ten years together and hope that this will be what matters in the long run . |
| 17 | When we submitted our first Report on the primary stages we recommended that the three profile components , speaking and listening , reading and writing , should be weighted equally in the assessment process . |
| 18 | Even period furniture is available through this means — we furnished our first few places in ‘ early poverty ’ . |
| 19 | Well we lost him first . |
| 20 | That year I think we lost our first 7 or 8 away games , and they went something like … |
| 21 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 22 | At Vigo we saw our first other light aircraft since leaving France . |
| 23 | We had come in search of raptors and we saw our first after only five minutes of walking . |
| 24 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 25 | But the time flew , we won our first round , and very quickly we were recording again . |
| 26 | The company grew very quickly and in 1987 exports reached £7.8 million , more than 50 per cent of the total turnover and this was the year we won our first Queen 's Award for Export Achievement . |
| 27 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
| 28 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 29 | We did our first run-through for producers Michael Codron and David Sutton and there was , at last , a frisson of magic in the air . |
| 30 | On Thursday we gave our first lecture to a wider audience , and were surprised that more than a hundred turned up . |